95. Pauley, 211. The Nazi Party in Austria had by this time around 164,000 members, more than twice as many as in 1933, when the NSDAP had been outlawed. With the Party proscribed, and in the absence of free elections, the level of its overall support in the population on the eve of the Anschluß can only be estimated. But in 1932, in regional elections, the NSDAP had already won around a fifth of the vote. See Gerhard Botz, ‘Austria’, in Detlef Mühlberger (ed.), The Social Basis of European Fascist Movements, London/New York/Sydney, 1987, 242–80, here 251. Assuming more than a doubling by 1938, in line with the level of increase in Party membership, it could be guessed that Nazi supporters (of differing levels of commitment) formed at least two-fifths of the population by the time the Anschluß crisis broke. Gerhard Botz’s estimate of 25–35 Per cent of the population who were enthusiasts for the Anschluß in 1938 may be too low (Gerhard Botz, Der 13.März 38 und die Anschluß-Bewegung. Selbstaufgabe, Okkupation und Selbstfindung Österreichs 1918– 1945, Vienna, 1978, 27).
96. Tb Reuth, 1214 (12 March 1938); Pauley, 213; text in Domarus, 81 n.120.
97. TWC, xii.729.
98. Pauley, 213; Kube, 246; Tb Irving, 103 (12 March 1938); Tb Spiegel, 31/92, 107; Eichstädt, 411.
99. Keitel, 178; Papen, 430. Jodl had found Brauchitsch on the night of 11 March ‘in a completely desolate mood’ (‘in einer vollkommen desolaten Stimmung’), fearing international repercussions (IMG, xv.442; Keitel, 178, n.27).
100. IMG, xxxi.369, Doc. 2949–PS; Domarus, 813; and see Tb Spiegel, 107, for Goebbels’s reaction.
101. Domarus, 811.
102. Shirer, 83.
103. Pauley, 214; Toland, 450.
104. Keitel, 179.
105. Tb Irving, 104 (13 March 1938); Tb Spiegel, 31/92, 107; Domarus, 814 (‘Freundschaftsbesuch’ in DNB-Meldung, 12 March 1938). The official version had German troops crossing the border at 8a.m. (Domarus, 814).
106. Domarus, 814, has Hitler landing at 10a.m.; Keitel, 179 has a 6a.m. departure from Berlin; Below, 91, has Hitler leaving at 8 and landing at 10.
107. Below, 91; Keitel, 179. For Bock, see the sketches by Horst Mühleisen, ‘Fedor von Bock — Soldat ohne Fortune’, in Ronald Smelser and Enrico Syring (eds.), Die Militärelite des Dritten Ketches, Berlin/Frankfurt am Main, 1995, 6–82, and Samuel W. Mitcham Jr, ‘Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’, in Gerd R. Ueberschär (ed.), Hitlers militärische Elite. Von den Anfängen des Regimes bis Kriegsbeginn, Darmstadt, 1998, 37–44; and Generalfeldmarshall Fedor von Bock. The War Diary, 1939–1945, ed. Klaus Gerbet, Atglen PA, 1996, 16–17.
108. Tb Irving, 104 (13 March 1938); Tb Spiegel, 31/92, 107. See Papen, 438, for Hitler’s orders for draft legislation to be prepared to make him head of both states in personal union.
109. Domarus, 816–17.
110. Below, 91; Tb Irving, 106 (13 March 1938); Tb Spiegel, 31/92, 107; Domarus, 817; Wagner and Tomkowitz, 194–5.
111. Below, 91.
112. Below, 92.
113. Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader, New York (1952), Da Capo Press edn, 1996, 50–56, here 56.
114. Domarus, 817–18 and n.139; Wagner and Tomkowitz, 198–201.
115. Tb Irving, 107 (14 March 1938); Tb Spiegel, 31/92, 107. Gerhard Botz, Nationalsozialismus in Wien. Machtübernahme und Herrschaftssicherung 1938/39, 3rd edn, Buchloe, 1988, 71, suggests that delays in getting the troops to Vienna and the wish to be sure of reactions abroad were responsible for the postponement of Hitler’s arrival in Vienna. But Guderian, who was in charge of the motorized units to enter Austria, later corrected the widely read, but misleading, account of military inefficiency and tank breakdowns, allegedly prompting fury from Hitler, as the reason (Guderian, 54–5; Churchill, i.242 (who probably derived his information from a usually well informed British witness of events in Vienna, G. E. R. Gedye, Fallen Bastions. The Central European Tragedy, London, 1939, 315–16. Gedye had been the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Austria for twelve years)).
116. See Schroeder, 85; Below, 92.
117. Below, 92.
118. Domarus, 819.
119. As suggested by David Irving, Führer und Reichskanzler. Adolf Hitler 1933–1945, Munich/Berlin, 1989, 91.
120. Schuschnigg was by this time, while nominally free, in effect under house arrest. See Schuschnigg, Austrian Requiem, 59–60.
121. Franz Jetzinger, Hitlers Jugend, Vienna, 1956, 131–3, 136 (photo); Domarus, 821; Below, 93, for the visit to Leonding.
